General information, E-books, Encyclopaedias

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  Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  More than 118,000 articles, updated and revised by Encyclopædia Britannica editors and contributors; over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags.

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  Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior[for ages 5-11]
  Find information quickly and easily by searching Britannica Junior Encyclopedia, magazines and journals, the Web’s Best sites, images and videos.Use Merriam-Webster’s Student Dictionary and Thesaurus to find definitions of unfamiliar words.

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  Encyclopaedia Britannica Student [for ages 12-18]
  Written for middle/secondary school students, a selection of current magazine and journal articles, photos, illustrations and maps and over 20,000 reviewed web sites

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  Credo Reference
  An online library providing access to a selection of reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.

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  Oxford Reference Online
  An extensive collection of reference works from Accounting to Zoology
  View full list of titles.

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  Netlibrary
  Digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,407 publicly-accessible titles.
  *You will need to visit your nearest library to set up an account before using Netlibrary for the first time

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  BDS Lite
  Use BDSLite to search for Books, DVDs, Games and music CDs currently available in the UK and those that are out-of-print

External websites recommended by library staff

Encarta
The online encyclopaedia from Microsoft

How-to-Solutions
Web site with more than 15,000 'how to' solutions

Language Dictionary
Database of links to languages online

Slang Expressions
Explains slang terms and phrases

Subject catalogue to the Web

Symbols
Online encyclopaedia of symbols from pre-history to the present

Internet Public Library
Extensive guide to specialist subject encyclopaedias and dictionaries

Wikipedia
On-line multilingual free encyclopaedia

Yahoo Reference
Part of the Yahoo site with many useful links to reference web sites